Convert unix timestamp to javascript date Object

Question

Am working with json api that represents dates like this

"date" : "/Date(1356081900000)/"

I want to turn this into regular javascript Date.

The only way I can think of solving this problem is to do a replace on everything leaving the timestamp which I can then "convert".

This works but it just looks wrong.

My question. Can I do this in better way?

UPDATE

 unix_timestamp = jsonDate.replace('/Date(', '').replace(')/', '');

 newDate = new Date(+unix_timestamp + 1000*3600);

Answer 1

Duplicate of How to format a JSON date?.

Accepted solution was:

var date = new Date(parseInt(jsonDate.substr(6)));